Pro-independence parties won an absolute majority of seats in the elections for the regional parliament of Catalonia, but just under half the votes. The Catalan issue is going to run for a very long time.
An extraordinary book on the Euro and its future paths. It analysis the multifaceted and complex dimensions of the Eurozone crisis from a variety of angles.
But to offer those opposing refugee quotas an ‘easy way out’ simply further diminishes the idea of solidarity in the European Union, both inward and outward.
Europe is forgetting where it has come from: a savage continent, but also the one that gave birth to the Enlightenment and Human Rights.
The EU’s once ambitious EULEX (European Union Rule of Law in Kosovo Mission) needs to be reformed so that it can put an end to its presence in Kosovo after having helped strengthen the Rule of Law.
The hard-line taken by the German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, and the subsequent U-turn by the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, has paradoxically reduced any real potential for a Grexit to take place.
The Eurozone, and by extension the EU adn Europe, has avoided a serious trip-up with Greece, although the danger is by no means past.
Angela Merkel must not amputate the Greeks from the eurozone.
Greece needs to make reforms if it is to return to growth, and it is more likely that this will happen inside the euro than outside. The key is to reactivating the logic that has worked so many times before in Europe: solidarity in exchange for reforms.
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